Barbara Shelly: Obstacles litter the road to your polling place

6:33 PM,
Oct. 8, 2012

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Barbara Shelly
Kansas City Star

A judge in Pennsylvania recently put a hold on the state's new voter ID law. Citizens will not be required to produce government-issued photo identification in order to have their vote count on Nov. 6.

That must be a disappointment to the Republican state legislative leader who had exulted upon the law's passage that "this is gonna allow Gov.Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania."

In fact, polls showed that a majority of voters in the Keystone State generally support the notion of producing a photo ID at the polls. But I was in Pennsylvania just a week ago, and I found a much different sentiment ...